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So when might we see Jeff Jacoby's dispatches from Mogadishu?

By adamg on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 4:08pm

Jacoby concludes his column today: "That government is best that governs least." Aaron Weber wonders:

I hope this means that he's headed immediately for Somalia, where nongovernance has turned the nation into a libertarian paradise.

He adds:

If the Globe is so hard up for cash, why not drop the waste of space and put the savings into articles on items of actual local interest by decent writers with worthwhile opinions, like Joel Brown?

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By aging cynic on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 11:45am.

Forget about the disingenuous jump from an American context to a global one. If Jacoby is such a lightweight, why does he frighten purported intellectuals so much? A total progressive echo chamber would be more productive? Free speech for me but not for thee? In any other American city (other than San Francisco), the claim that an opposing view didn't deserve to see the light of day would be considered outrageous. "Athens of America" my ass.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 12:06pm.

Bloody predictable, too.

I just find it kind of sad that the Globe feels it has to employ a "right wing" columnist whose work reads like some lame blog entry in order to provide "balance". Jacoby, like any classic token, appears to have been selected such that his lameness would be considered representative of his "kind". The whole plagerism of a truthy e-mail platitude supports that. This a disservice to democracy, as one would think that the Globe could find a better writer to represent such "alternative" points of view.

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